David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Mr. O'Callaghan still has to be held to account because the board has a responsibility to ensure that when weaknesses are identified, they are resolved and addressed. It is not good enough that year after year we have to deal with issues of compliance with public procurement rules and failures of bodies to present accounts. If a body is receiving taxpayers' money and, having carried out his work very diligently, the Comptroller and Auditor General publishes a report identifying weaknesses in governance, and if the organisation, in its own set of internal control statements, sets out that it will take steps but fails to do so, it must be held to account. One of the places where they can be held to account is at this committee. When, over the course of four years, the Comptroller and Auditor General pointed out lapses in controls in the organisation, why did the board and Mr. O'Callaghan, as chair, fail to deal with them?